Category Archives: Politics

Historical quote of the day: Taxation

From the Old Farmer’s Almanac: If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation.

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Damn Illegal Aliens!

This guy has got style. Bonus picture of the Governator included at no extra charge.

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Who said it, Hitler or Falwell?

Mangoat linked to the Stinko Pinko’s LiveJournal page where he has 10 quotes, some said by Adolf Hitler and some said by the recently deceased Jerry Falwell. Your job: figure out who said each one. You might be surprised if … Continue reading

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Naked Chocolate Jesus

Just saw this on CNN, apparently chocolate Easter bunnies weren’t enough for an enterprising artist. He decided to make an anatomically correct naked chocolate Jesus as reported by WLKY in New York in this story. Better yet he titled this … Continue reading

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Bono’s charity org is bogus

After reading this story about how Bono and U2 take full advantage of tax breaks etc. (thanks Mangoat) I ran across a related story that RED (a charity organization that Bono founded to fight AIDS in Africa) spent only 18% … Continue reading

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The Week magazine

My brother got me a subscription to The Week magazine for Christmas and I’m really enjoying it. While a weekly magazine might seem hard to keep up with it’s fairly thin so it’s doable. I don’t watch the news on … Continue reading

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Alaska worse than Florida in elections?

Dead woman wins election in Alaska after coin toss A dead woman won re-election to a school board in rural Alaska after her opponent lost a coin flip meant to break an electoral tie. The school district, which covers an … Continue reading

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Pentagon Intelligence Isn’t

This clip from ABC News shows how clueless the Intelligence branch of the Pentagon can be. Some joker at the Pentagon saw a fan film of BF2 and made the claim before a Congressional Intelligence committee that terrorists had taken … Continue reading

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REAL ID == BAD

So I followed a link on Mangoat.net the other day to a video clip that was amusing yet disturbing at the same time here. After the video it linked to this ACLU page. I filled out the form letter and … Continue reading

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